The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission has shut down oilfield fracking operations for at least 30 days in northeastern British Columbia while it investigates earthquakes that occurred there on Nov. 29. The ...

B.C.'s Oil and Gas Commission has suspended fracking operations in an area southeast of Fort St. John until at least 2019 while regulators investigate a series of earthquakes measuring between 3.4 and ...

B.C.'s Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking operations, according to a new study. Researchers set up 15 earthquake detectors ...

According to the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission, two recent and noticeable earthquakes in the northwestern part of the province were caused by gas extraction operations.The Commission said ...

Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. Fracking injects fluids and sand at high ...

The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission is shutting down oilfield fracking operations in a 72-square-kilometre area in the northeast part of the province for at least 30 days while it investigates earthquakes ...

A coalition of community, First Nation and environmental organizations wants the provincial government to expand a promised review of natural gas fracking operations into a full public inquiry. “We ...

B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) has concluded that a trio of earthquakes in the area around Fort St. John at the end of November were caused by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations. The ...

New research published in The European Physical Journal B proposes the idea that fracking can decrease the magnitude and the microearthquakes that tend to occur in certain mining operations. Hydraulic ...

A judge will not stop the flow of fresh water from British Columbia's lakes and rivers to hydraulic fracking operations, but did recognize the issue as a growing public concern. The Western Canada ...

Andrew Nikiforuk's 'Energy and Equity' column runs (at least) once a week on The Tyee. Read his previous pieces for The Tyee here. Fracking fluids can foul groundwater relied on by the public. In one ...